Apr 4, 2025
“Like ‘servant leadership’ and complementarian theology, the purity movement enabled evangelicals to reassert patriarchal authority in the face of economic, political, and social change…by 2005, more than 100 abstinence-based groups would received more than $104 million in federal funding. Here was a case of government intrusion into the most intimate of matters, yet evangelicals didn’t seem to mind.”
Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation